Muhammad Umran

Muhammad Umran (1922-4 March 1972) was Minister of Defense of Syria from 1 September 1965 to 14 February 1966, succeeding Hamad Ubayd and preceding Hafez al-Assad.

Biography
Muhammad Umran was born in 1922 in al-Mukharram, French Mandate of Syria, to a family of Alawites. He fought in the First Arab-Israeli War in 1948 and became the leading mind of the Military Committee of the Ba'ath Party. Prime Minister Salah al-Din al-Bitar appointed him as Deputy Prime Minister in the first Ba'athist government, and he played a major role in the coups of the 1960s. However, after the 1966 Syrian coup d'etat, he was imprisoned, and he fled to Lebanon after being released in 1967. He was assassinated in Tripoli in 1972.